FAMILY POSITIVE LIVING - AIDS HOLISTICS: UNI STUDENTS ...
21 Aug 2011 ... FAMILY POSITIVE LIVING - AIDS HOLISTICS ... UNI
STUDENTS LACK READING SKILLS ... That is the PNG way. ... to be teaching
English at university because teaching university students is different to teaching
high school ...familypositiveliving.blogspot.com/.../uni-students-lack-reading-skills.html
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POSITIVE LIVING - AIDS ... 21 Aug 2011 Students at university level often
fail their courses or produce poor results ... Labels: TECHNICAL ENGLISH FOR
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This can be a double edged problem. Firstly, they have not acquired enough high level English up to grade 12. Secondly, the university lecturers are not sufficiently explanatory in their lectures.
The problem can be overrated. Many subjects do not have a high level of technical English. I have been a teacher of Marketing, Economics and Management in business colleges. There were no more than 10 technical words in either subject. Most of this was explained in the ordinary course of the subject.
Across an English speaking world, special English classes are set up to teach the technical language to foreign students. But this brings problems. Lecturers do not want non-specialist teachers to explain words that will appear in their subject.
They want the specific meaning relating to the subject. Many words have both a specialist and general meaning. A non-specialist teacher may cause confusion There is no value in a teacher explaining the word "current" in terms of rivers. This is of little use in Electrical Engineering.
It really comes back to the individual university lecturer who has to be able to foresee problem words and explain in simple English. How many university subjects have English more difficult than daily newspapers?
If lecturers build in a process of explaining difficult concepts and words, the problem will be lessened. The lecturer should proceed in terms of concrete to abstract, simple to complex and known to unknown.
Perhaps university lecturers need a course in instructional techniques as part of their appointment.
They should make lessons practical in explanation. Every course at university is supposed to send out graduates who can perform practical tasks - doctors, dentists, engineers, teachers and lawyers.
Complex English is of little use if that is all that is used. Universities are to send out more practitioners than philosophers.
A retired lecturer recently advised that he did not speak difficult technical English to students. He would expect them to have language skill acquired in Grades 11 and Grade 12 study.
They should have experience in research for information. Research can be a task in Mastery Learning at high school.
The down side of university problems in language is the ever present plagiarism in assignments. Students have copied out of books all through high school. Now they are penalized at university. Mastery Learning should stress the skill of explaining concepts in own words.
FAMILY POSITIVE LIVING - AIDS HOLISTICS: August 2011
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at 18:55 ... It is called plagiarism. This is poor ... The whole system is not
ready for research study. ... He distinguished himself in PNG by his fierce
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